Here are some tomatoes. They're "Early Girl" variety. Um, hi tomatoes. It's August. You're not very early (and in another container, I have "Better Boy" planted. They haven't even flowered).
Speaking of which, I planted no tomatoes in my garden plot this year (only in containers on my patio) and there are like 15 tomato plants popping up between the rows. And they all have tomatoes on them. I didn't realize that tomato plants were perennial.
A flower! I don't know what this is. It's in the wildflower plot.
Future jalapenos (peppers have actually appeared since I took this photo day before yesterday):
Dill!
Chubby lil' curcubit (they're getting too much water but I can't stop it raining):
Some other type of pepper. It's supposed to turn red eventually:
That's all! Bye!
This message has been edited by jeez_louise on Aug 18, 2009 9:29 PM
Hah! Everytime we go out for Mexican food, the running joke is that whoever orders fajita's, they have to pronounce it FAH-JYE-TAS (with a hard J). I never make it thru tho without laughing. The wait staff don't find it very amusing, sour pusses.
I did not know that, Lisa. Well, I mean, I knew that staring at the sun was bad, but I didn't realize about looking at it on the LCD of the camera.
I had the camera on the "sunrise/sunset light" setting. Hopefully that made it so the camera isn't wrecked!
Well, if you're looking at it just on the LCD screen, you're probably not hurting your eyes. And I had no idea that some cameras came with such a setting. If you're not blind, and your camera works, then everything is probably fine.
I never thought about that before, Lisa, but now that you mention it, I wonder if the lenses on DSLR cameras would magnify sunlight kinda like a magnifying glass. That could be problematic, for obvious reasons. Maybe melt some internal part or something? I dunno really. Just a thought.
Yeah Doc - using a DSLR camera, you are looking at what your shooting through the lens. So trying to photograph the sun is a very bad idea. You risk frying your lens and your eyes.
I would imagine it might screw up the Light Meter sensor if it was exposed long enough- Not sure about frying your eyes though. The magnification damaging your eye? With as much diffraction from the atmosphere, and the number of optical surfaces that the light has to hit in the lens before it gets to your eye (loss of roughy 1-2% per surface), I would kind doubt it would do much damage- however, better to shoot it through the LCD in the future, just to be on the safe side.
curcubit = the plant family that cucumbers and watermelons are in. I was bein' fancy.
My tomatoes will either make it and turn red, or I will pickle them. They won't go to waste, anyway.
I never realized that not having a DSLR could save my life! I have not yet gone blind.
REPEAT
I have not gone blind.
Todd: They would say hi back to Roscoe, except they're too busy licking their junk. Their own, and each others'. I'm arranging a marriage for the Fall.
This message has been edited by jeez_louise on Aug 19, 2009 3:56 PM
